The architectural history of the University of Cambridge, and of the colleges of Cambridge and Eton . been there3. No building could ever 1 Ingrams Memorials, at supra, p. 8. Skeltons Oxonia Antiqua, ed. 18. 8 [Wood, Ut supra, p. 86.] 3 The building at the north-east corner was a large chamber like a Hall orRefectory, and had windows in the style of the collegiate church. It was pulleddown in 1812. It is engraved by Skelton and by Loggan. [The gateway was built1416, and the chambers between it and the Wardens lodgings were rebuilt , ut supra, p. 17.] 250 THE COLLEGIATE PLAN
The architectural history of the University of Cambridge, and of the colleges of Cambridge and Eton . been there3. No building could ever 1 Ingrams Memorials, at supra, p. 8. Skeltons Oxonia Antiqua, ed. 18. 8 [Wood, Ut supra, p. 86.] 3 The building at the north-east corner was a large chamber like a Hall orRefectory, and had windows in the style of the collegiate church. It was pulleddown in 1812. It is engraved by Skelton and by Loggan. [The gateway was built1416, and the chambers between it and the Wardens lodgings were rebuilt , ut supra, p. 17.] 250 THE COLLEGIATE PLAN. [CHAP. have been intended to join or hide the eastern gable of thequire. In fact, the system of this first college seems to havebeen to keep the buildings separate : the collegiate quire withits vestry on the right hand of the courtyard ; the refectoryopposite to the entrance, with its kitchen and offices beyond ;the Masters kospitium on the left; and the scholars hospitiumas a separate dwelling also. On the south side of the churchthere is now a real quadrangle, called Mob Quadrangle, of great. Fig. i. Ground-plan of Merton College, Oxford. apparent antiquity, which nevertheless is the result of a gradualaccumulation of buildings. The northern side is formed by arange of chambers of the sixteenth century standing within tenfeet of the quire buttresses, but, previous to the building of thisrange, the northern side was formed by the church itself. Theeastern side contains the vestry and the treasury, both of Mertonstime; and it is completed by a range of chambers of uncertaindate. The west side was at first formed by the wall of thesouth transept (now covered by the north range), and by part of HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT. 251 the library, begun about 1376, long after Mertons time. Thislibrary returns and closes the quadrangle on the south. All Mertons work is in the best style and workmanship ofhis period, and his church, so far as it goes, is a monumentalstructure. He commenced h
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